IGERT: Sensor Science, Engineering, and Informatics

这一传感器科学、工程和信息学(SSEI)IGERT项目将在传感器系统领域提供从新材料和传感机制的科学和工程到传感器数据解释的多学科博士培训。有效传感器系统的设计和管理需要全面了解信息是如何在传感系统内以及在不同的应用环境中被收集、存储、整合、评估和传达给决策者的。SSEI IGERT将三个研究重点领域编织在一起：(1)传感器材料和器件，(2)传感器系统和网络，(3)传感器信息学。该项目的学术价值包括旨在确保反馈回路的教育和研究活动，以便SSEI IGERT受训人员能够将新知识从传感器生成的数据转化为传感器系统和网络的进一步开发以及传感器材料和器件的进步，反之亦然。该计划的创新部分包括(1)开发和使用需要跨越三个研究领域的跨学科互动的试验台原型；(2)在研究和培训中紧密结合传感环境的社会、法律、伦理和经济层面；(3)扩大与从事传感器研究的公司和联邦实验室的关系；(4)国际合作；以及(5)与初中、高中和本科水平的传感器科学和工程教育的协同整合。SSEI IGERT计划的更广泛影响是新一代的科学家和工程师，他们将多才多艺地处理构成传感系统的各种技术组件，熟悉高度敏感环境的法律、社会和伦理背景，并意识到必须在此类系统中保留、保护和促进的人类价值观。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的项目，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、所选学科的深厚知识以及满足未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，催化研究生教育的文化变革。

This Sensor Science, Engineering and Informatics (SSEI) IGERT program will provide multidisciplinary doctoral training in the area of sensor systems ranging from the science and engineering of new materials and sensing mechanisms to the interpretation of sensor data. The design and management of effective sensor systems requires a holistic understanding of how information is collected, stored, integrated, evaluated, and communicated within sensing systems and to decision makers in diverse application contexts. The SSEI IGERT weaves together three research focus areas: (1) Sensor Materials and Devices, (2) Sensor Systems and Networks, and (3) Sensor Informatics. The intellectual merit of the project includes education and research activities that are designed to ensure a feedback loop so that SSEI IGERT trainees are able to transform new knowledge from sensor-generated data to further development of sensor systems and networks and advances in sensor materials and devices, and vice versa. Innovative components of the program include (1) development and use of a testbed prototype that will require interdisciplinary interaction across the three research areas; (2) a tight integration of the social, legal, ethical, and economic dimensions of sensing environments in both research and training, (3) expanded relationships with companies and federal laboratories engaged in sensor research, (4) international collaborations, and (5) synergistic integration with sensor science and engineering education at the middle, high school, and undergraduate level. The broader impacts of the SSEI IGERT program are a new breed of scientists and engineers who will be versatile in dealing with the diverse technical components that contribute to sensing systems, knowledgeable in the legal, social, and ethical contexts of heavily sensed environments, and aware of the human values that must be preserved, protected and promoted within such systems. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.